John Newton Quotes (22 Quotes)

By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage

To carry an umbrella without any headgear places a fellow in a social no man's land-in the category of one hurrying round to the corner shop for a bottle of stout on a rainy day at the behest of a nagging landlady.

A bowler can make or break a chap.

He was frustrated with the direction commercial software was taking and what you could accomplish with the high-ticket sales model, The evolution cycles go so much faster, and the clock speed of the industry goes much, much faster.

Cheerfulness is no sin, nor is there any grace in a solemn cst of countenance.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

I think those of us who know the university feel pretty good about it. But I think that it's not known. This is not the flagship of the state.

Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death

The level of violence was unacceptable and beyond the proper view of punishment,

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribed because we need them and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill, and thank him for his prescription.

This is faith a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark

Amazing grace How sweet the sound; That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Alas though I know in theory what a Christian should be--I am still sadly deficient in practice I am a poor creature, and see much to be ashamed of every day, and in every circumstance. Yet, though sin will distress--it cannot condemn, those who believe in Jesus

I am not what I ought to be I am not what I would like to be I am not what I hope to be. But I am not what I once was, and by the grace of God, I am what I am.

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds; In a believer's ear; It soothese his sorrows,heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.